Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 07:50 UTC, submitted by happykid
The road to the One Laptop Per Child has been riddled with humps and bumps, such as hardware issues, the failure of the 'G1G1' scheme, and the inability to reach the USD 100 price mark, culminating in the resignation of the project's president yesterday. Now, Negroponte, the project's founder and chairman, has stated something that might alienate the project's strongest supporters even further: the OLPC might evolve into using Windows XP only.
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The problem is that they slapped a confusing, non-standard interface on the thing, and it won't run windows software. Duh.
Did they actually ask any of the prospective users what they wanted? I am sure they would have asked for Windows compatibility. I am sure they would have liked their children to learn the basic desktop metaphor shared by almost all modern operating systems, as that's what they will be using if they get a job working with computers.